These media’s approach is more than just a notification process and become a tool for managing, defining and interpreting global events.

There is no doubt that a large part of the media in the region and the world is in the hands of these power. It must be accepted there is a media conflict alongside any military conflict. Media that provide a path to justify, deny, and accept what is not. Although the slogan of all of them is simply, transparency and honesty. Lying, denying reality, destroying, justifying and distorting are the most important techniques of these news networks.

Free speeches from few media are also lost in the misleading dust of these news outlets. On the other hand, though, affiliated news media use their full power to mislead the public and have defined a certain mechanism for themselves. On the other side, they adopted an independent, free and ethical approach, there is no clear definition.

This weakness is seen more about the developments in the Middle East; the flow of media power changes the international equations and advanced to the brink of influence in the domestic arena and managing public opinion. These media are responsible for managing global and regional crises in favor of Zionist capitalists and violate all professional ethics.

Islamic Awakening was a scale to measure the trust of Islamic nations’ public opinion in the media. Apart from the media that have obvious Zionist-affiliated outlets, there are some divergent media opposed to the axis of resistance and its nations. Saudi-controlled media are most active in this regard.

September 11 and media conflict

The September 11 2001 event created an opportunity for the global power stream to expand its media penetration through the creation of satellite and news networks that their main objectives are to:

Justify US regional policies and attempt to improve the face of Washington

Accompany public opinion with US policies of killing and war in the region this included public opinion within the United States

Increase the anger and hatred of the West and Americans from the Islamic world

Create a new pattern of Islam, Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIL, to deal with the true version of Islam

Provide the field for dividing the region

Create ethical and religious discord in the region

Justify the attack on Afghanistan and Iraq

Make the stay of occupation forces in the region a permanent thing

Impose a new political literature to the people of the region

The main mission of these news networks was to justify US policy and bring public opinion with them. Up to now, Western public opinion are obtained from all their news and information through the lens of Western media without any comment on it.

After September 11th, affiliated news channels were largely increased. The Americans have invested heavily in this which was undoubtedly a primary role for the Saudis. The new network of Al Arabiya was established and launched with the Saudi capital in the UAE.

Though initially it was said that the network was established due to differences among the Saudis and Qataris and in competition with Al Jazeera, but it turned out in the events of Islamic awakening that the two networks follow the same policy. It was in these events that the main motivations for the formation and mission of these high-profile Arabic networks were revealed.

Al Jazeera, the relative trust to distrust

Although Al Jazeera was a bit more professional and tried to deny any dependence on the family of the Emir of Qatar, but it couldn’t hide its true color in the following events.

After September 11th, Al-Jazeera was known as a popular Arabic network and could gain the trust of the Arab world, because it covered the news on the occupied territories. But gradually and with the advent of Arab revolutions, the network revealed its original approach and adopted a dual policy. At that time, some of network’s prominent anchors stepped down to protest these policies. Ghassan bin Jeddo resigned from his position who is now the director of Al Mayadeen TV channel, before that he was Al Jazeera’s Beirut bureau chief and before that the bureau chief of Al Jazeera in Tehran. At the time, Al Jazeera adopted dual positions on the Arab revolutions.

Al Jazeera’s slogans was transparency and reflection of opposing ideas. While supporting Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, it censored developments in the peaceful revolution of the Bahraini people and called the ISIS terrorists in Syria as revolutionaries. Al Jazeera became a platform for ISIL terrorists and Salafists.

The network played an important role in the destruction of Islam and highlighting an Islam that is known radical by Westerns. One of the most important approaches of the network was to play bin Laden’s tapes and show the footage of Taliban killing people and shouting Allah Akbar. It had false impact on the public opinion about Islam. On the other hand, it was able to convince Western public opinion about the American massacre policies in Afghanistan and Iraq. The best justification was the existence of terrorist groups labelled as Islamic.

Al Jazeera, however, tried to deny its dependence on the Qatari family that was succeeded at first, but it couldn’t concealed it as Al Arabiya network established in the UAE like other Saudi networks. Not only all news policies of this network were in support of the anti-resistance axis and in defense of Saudi Arabia, but also news was released in the same way as the Saudi media which praise the kings of Saudi Arabia the most.

There was a time that some Al Jazeera journalist joined Al Arabiya due to network’s better financial condition. But the network has never been able to find a place among the Arab public opinion even the opposition. Saudi dollars is the only source that guarantee the network survival.

US-based Alhurra TV channel, which was established as the United States attacked Iraq to improve the US image in the Arab world, was never seen as a professional network due to its unprofessional policy. It even wasn’t able to have serious audiences as Al Arabiya. Although, the network attempted to reveal some high profile information to fill this gap.

The media monopoly; Arab and Western networks

To date, most of the regional events have been analyzed and evaluated through Arab and Western media. Western public opinion that is affected by these networks for a long time become more dependent. Media vocabulary was also one of the most important missions to bring these following words into the political literature of nations:

– Dividing Muslims into extremist and moderate

– Different interpretation of Islam

– Trying to tarnish the image of true Islam

– Aligning terrorism and resistance

– New political terms and controversies about it

– Creating Iran phobia and Shia phobia

– Imposing the new Middle East project

2001 to 2006 condition; Media monopoly; Weakness of information

It can be said over these years the organized media monopoly dominated the region and the world. Especially that Western public opinion was not interested in knowing the truth and only listen to western television networks such as CNN. All the information that the Western community have about the regional events is limited to news that was unilaterally published by these television networks.

Strict censorship of Palestinian developments and accusing Muslims of being terrorists were the most important missions. Western citizens didn’t have any information about geographical location of the region, they even didn’t know the difference between Iraq and Syria and some of them even weren’t heard of some countries in the region. Despite Western freedom of the press, but it has been trying to put the public in a poor pace of information about regional developments. Saudi dollars also remedy that and were able to finance an important part of the media especially London and US based ones.

2006; the beginning of the failure of the Western media monopoly and the media balance of resistance

After 2006 and during the Lebanese War and the 22-day Gaza war that almost media monopoly has failed and the lights of freedom seeking was on in European public opinion. Journalists like Swedish Donald Bostrom and Western freedom seekers joined the front which people like Rachel Corrie were a part of it. These people defined morality beyond the geographical, racial and religious boundaries. It was the same about the regional media. European public opinion had no longer any trust in the media.

Europeans took the streets to protest against the 22-day Gaza war and the brutal killing by Israel. This was the first serious response to Israel. In these years, political literature has also changed in general. The myth of Israel’s invincibility was shattered and a media balance was created. Al Alam, Press TV, and Al Mayadeen joined the line or become more powerful. There is no doubt that the role of these networks was impressive in the resistance axis on-field successes. There are also some other networks independent and independent to the resistance movement that play the same role. Of course, it should be said that some oppositional and realist media, along with these networks, support these people once in a while. Sowing religious discord is also the most important tool in these networks to provoke the audience.

And censorship of reality as it is…

And finally after the start of a new chapter in the emergence of independent media and after efforts was aimless on confronting these media, in an unexpected move, they stopped broadcasting these networks. Actually, it is a good sign for the resistance media that they have influence.

After putting Al Alam network under pressure, it is Al Mayadeen’s turn now (its slogan is “Reality as it is”). They restricted its activity by putting allegations that are more like features of Saudi networks. They have come to believe about the media balance in the region, realized the impact of the resistance media and became aware of its threat and danger, as well. Undoubtedly, it can be said, today, the axis of resistance reached to a media balance along with political and military power to change the rules of the game.

A media balance in which all individuals and groups are present with any political, religious or racial orientation and pursue a common goal. Confronting Western media and political domination over the region and resisting against its conspiracies!

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